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By Lydia Mulvany, Marvin G Perez, and Tatiana Freitas

December 2, 2019 at 7:51 PM UTC

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December 3, 2019 at 5:00 AM UTC

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President Donald Trump may have bewildered authorities in Argentina and Brazil by announcing on Twitter new steel tariffs as punishment for cheapening their currencies. But the measure does shine a light on how much the hardy dollar is hurting U.S. farmers.